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Either erotica is your thing or it isn’t, and, well, sometimes it is mine.

Here’s a book that’s a mixture of erotica, African folklore and fantasy.Give yourself a treat and try this heady, powerful novella.

Abiku: A Battle of Gods by Elizabeth Salawu

​ASIN B01IMMZ8FO

​Book Description

She was called an Abiku, an evil spirit sent to this world to lure men to their doom

Dayo is a bi-racial twenty-something year old with a German mom and a Nigerian dad. She has a semi bougie lifestyle, always jetting across the pond between Africa and Europe.

She starts dating her father's driver in secret after seducing him.

On her return from her cousin's twenty-first birthday, she tries gbana (crack) for the first time. She finds herself in an alternate realm and thinks she's hallucinating from using gbana. She doesn't take anything that happens there seriously as she thinks she's having a vivid dream. That is, until she couldn't wake up from getting married to a 'man' she met in that realm...

Ann Girdharry’s View

A highly original story that blends eroticism, Nigerian folklore and a young woman's dual life. I’ve never come across anything similar.

Dayo comes from a rich family and has a privileged lifestyle. Once free from her parents' supervision, she seduces her father's chauffeur and they start a hot, steamy affair.

Things start becoming strange when sex and drugs seemingly push Dayo into another realm. It's a mythic realm in which she begins an affair with a man who appears to be a god.Is she hallucinating? Has she gone mad? What’s real and what isn’t real?

As the story spins out, Dayo has some tough choices to make, but she’s a tough young woman, so don’t think the odds are all stacked against her.

This book touches on notions of African beauty, and portrays a different view of attractiveness.The erotic scenes are well written and the first half of the book is particularly powerful.​